{"id":1678,"date":"2014-04-07T17:37:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2014-04-07T17:42:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T17:42:43","slug":"iotangels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/iotangels\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing #iotangels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/33216172?rel=0\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px 1px 0; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/designswarm\/funding-the-internet-of-things-in-the-uk\" title=\"Funding the Internet of Things in the UK\" target=\"_blank\">Funding the Internet of Things in the UK<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/designswarm\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>There are many reasons why the UK is a great space for internet of things startups: access to the creative industries, manufacturing, advertising, technologists. Funding isn&#8217;t one of them sadly as I highlighed in a talk at a Policy Connect event last week at the Design Museum. Which is why I&#8217;ll be starting an angel fund specifically focused on supporting internet of things startups.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to help, please join us for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/iotangels\/\">dinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding the Internet of Things in the UK from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino There are many reasons why the UK is a great space for internet of things startups: access to the creative industries, manufacturing, advertising, technologists. Funding isn&#8217;t one of them sadly as I highlighed in a talk at a Policy Connect event last week at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/iotangels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introducing #iotangels<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet-of-things","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-r4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}